Family Vacation

The Grand Canyon

We decided this summer we would take a fun family trip. We started are adventure off going down throught Kanab. We got to see part of Lake Powell as we crossed the Utah/Arizona border. We stayed the night in Page, Arizona. Then we got up early and start off to the Grand Canyon. When we got to the Grand Canyon we found a camp site and set up camp before we went out exploring. We started driving through the canyon stopping at scenic views. It is so amazing how beautiful it is. We walked some trails and looked off some cliffs. The kids were pretty fealess they would walk out on the edge with no problems. At the grand view Danny, Beverlie, and Kaitlyn got their picture took when they were in the rock. It was fun. Danny took the girls down a trail to the copper mine and he took some really awsome pictures along the way. The trail was steap annd rocky so me and the boys stayed at the top playing on the rocks and having fun. We took the kids to the indain ruins. It was neat to see how they lived. At the ruins there was a view of the highest peak in Arizona throught some trees. The kids favorite part was the (castle) tower. We climb up the top and took some picture of the grand canyon and we got a picture of the kids standing in the chimney. They had fun. At camp they played games and ran all over the place. We sang songs and told scary stories around the campfire.

The kids at the top of the tower standing in the chimney.


This is the trail to the copper mine were Danny took the girls. They got there picture took in a cave they found.
This is Danny standing out on a cliff. He walked out n alot of cliffs and rocks the whole trip. If only he would have took the camera.
This is the indian ruins. this picture is of there storage.

After the Grand Canyon we traveled through Arizona and crossed over the Hoovr Dam. Then we stopped and seen Lake Mead. Then we stopped at Las Vegas and stayed the night. We took the kids down the strip and let them see the different casinos. They seen the waterfalls at the Mirage, the pirate ships at treasure Island, the Eiffel Tower and the Stratosphere. The next day we took the kids swimming. Then we took them to circus circus to see the circus show then took them to the adventure dome. Me and Danny rode the New york rollercoaster. It was a blast. On are way home we stopped at St. George and visited with Grandma White. It was nice to get to see here and see how she has been doing we really enjoyed it. I took pictures of the whole trip and made a slide show so you can see all the pictures we took.

Gardening

We have been busy getting are garden growing. We finally got it planted. Are garden is huge and it is going to be a lot of work. But we are excited. Trevor has been helping with the garden. He was out there everyday with us planting his own garden. It was so cute. When we were planting the garden my shovel would always come up missing. I just had to go to Trevor's garden to get it back. It's only been a couple of days since we planted are garden and we are already seeing some of are vegetables starting to grow. We planted just about everything in are garden.
beans, beets, broccoli, carrots, squash, zucchini, radish, Green peppers, jalapenos, cabbage, cauliflower, 3 different tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe, honey dew, pumpkins, and peas. I don't think I forgot anything. Oh and we planted strawberries too. I can't wait till everything starts growing.

This is part of are garden.

This is the other half.This is a picture of are beans they are growing the best. Are peas are starting to come up too.

We have also been working on are front yard. I plant two flower beds. One in front of are porch.
the other one I planted under are tree in the front yard. We planted grass were it didn't grow last year. It's starting to grow too.

The flower bed under the tree. You can see the grass starting to grow around it.

Danny has started are sidewalk. He is almost done with it. He just has alittle ways to go. He has put bark on the side of the sidewalk. I think it looks really nice he did a good job. If you look really close at the picture you will see the dog prints. He just got done laying the cement when the kids let the dogs out and were did they go. Right across the wet cement. So now we have dog prints in the cement.

Family update

Well are family is doing good. The girls are excited about being out of school for the summer. They have 1 more week left. Beverlie did a talent show at the school. She did a dance with 2 of her friends ( Aubrey and Brittany Jo). They had fun and worked really hard on there dance and they did good. Carolyn class did a brunch with the moms and we played games. It was tons of fun. Except when we did the sack race. I was racing against Carolyn and Hailey. They won me. I couldn't do it. I keep falling every time I tried. it took me forever just to get to the finish line. But I wasn't the only one who couldn't do it. The boys are getting big. They love just playing and having fun. They love the dirt and mud. They play outside in the dirt, riding bikes, and playing baseball. Me and Trevor was outside the other day playing baseball. He is good at it. He'll hit the ball and take off running so I can chase him. Ryan loves to be pushed in his little car. This summer I'm going to plant a garden. I plan on making Strawberry Jam and homemade salsa.
The other day Trevor decided to play barber. He wanted to cut his paper he was drawing so I gave him the scissors and when I went to the bathroom when I came back in the room the was hair every where's and Trevor was guilty hiding the scissors be hide his back. While Carolyn was a sleep on the chair he cut off her ponytail. So the other day I took her to get her hair fixed at the salon. Here is the pictures of her new hair cut.

This is the front view

The back view

I need to get the hang of spiking the back it should look better but I need to figure out how to do it . But it looks cute...

Water and Mud Fun, fun, fun....

Today was a nice day. Carol, Misty and her family came over to are house. We sat outside and was visiting enjoying the outside. Then we went over to their house to help Misty and Steve get ready for their yard sell their going to be having. Well it was really hot today and we'll we were going through boxes of stuff the kids thought they would take their socks and shoes off and get wet. My dad was watering his fruit trees and the kids took advantage of it. We'll Trevor,Jarrett,Hailie, and Carolyn was running through the water and mud Ryan was trying to spray them with the hose. He thought it was fun until he spayed himself in the face with the water. It was fun just to watch them and they had tons of fun...The kids are enjoying this great weather we are having.

Spring Fun

It finally has warmed up. We have been loving it. We have been outside doing some yard work and playing with the kids. The other day we went over to Misty and Steve's and the kids played baseball. The kids had tons of fun. We have been busy having fun.



Danny helping Ryan hit the ball. He was having so much fun he really loves to play baseball.

Here is Ryan trying to hit the ball on his own.

Here's Carolyn when it was her time to bat.

The other day we had the sprinklers on and Ryan keep going close enough to get alittle wet then we would run out of the sprinkler.

Here is Carolyn and Trevor on the tire swing I made them last year. they really love playing on it.